'Statement of Teaching and Learning'
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As an educator, I believe that the most important part of my role is to care and provide for young children. I believe that in doing so, I must build effective relationships with the children I care for, their parents and their families. Valuing these relationships is something I aspire to which includes the relationships and partnerships I build and maintain with my colleagues.
I believe that by creating relationships and investing in the collaboration with parents, families and children, I will get to know the children and their backgrounds.
I feel that a child's background, ethnicity, race, beliefs are all such valuable aspects of their contribution to their educational setting and beginning to gain knowledge of these aspects is something I feel that I will work on doing when meeting and getting to know everyone.
When caring and educating for children, I believe in an inclusive, play-based environment, where children can be safe and secure and feel welcomed and belonging in their setting. I plan to develop my observational techniques, this will allow me to then plan effectively for the individual child and the group, based on their interests, strengths and family/community participation.
While young children are young they should be provided with opportunities and experiences that will enable them to grow and learn in their future societies. I believe that with the forever changing society, I will enable this for children and ensure that I expose them to technological resources that can be transformed as learning tools, enhancing their developing.
I feel that the environment in which this vital learning and development is occurring needs to be educational and inviting for these children to learn through play and through participation and engagement in their setting. The setting that i will provide will be bright and fun and will be encouraging for the child to enjoy their learning and processes of development.
while i am encouraging children and families to feel secure and comfortable in the environment that I will be creating, I feel that it is so vital that i am reflecting on my practices and continuing to improve my personal and professional learning so as I can grow as an educator.